Before I start rhapsodizing about this roasted caprese salad, I should go on record by saying I love the traditional version of caprese salad a ridiculous amount of love. Sliced tomatoes and mozzarella cheese and chopped basil, all drizzled with a little balsamic vinegar and olive oil - I mean, what's not to love there? And I make it over and over and over when the tomatoes are local and the basil is abundant. But then I got to thinking...what if I shook it up just a teeny bit? What if I kept the tomatoes and the basil, but swapped out the mozzarella for its show-off cousin, burrata cheese? What if I added a little torn and toasted bread to sass things up a bit? What if? I'm guessing you know the answer, since I'm about to say (say it with me now), let's make it! Read More & Get the Recipe

There is nothing easier to make and better for you than a nice piece of roasted salmon. Seriously, it's 15 minutes from fridge to table, and salmon is a power food (and the best kind to buy is wild Alaskan salmon, if you can find it). But as wonderful as it is, plain roasted salmon can be, well, plain. Which is where this recipe for salmon with rosemary balsamic sauce comes in. While your delicious, nutritious salmon is roasting away, you can be whipping up this incredibly flavorful sauce that will make your kitchen smell all kinds of wonderful and your salmon taste all kinds of good. Ready to jazz up your salmon supper? Let's make it! Read More & Get the Recipe

This recipe for crispy prosciutto asparagus is a lovely little appetizer for any occasion, from your next swanky dinner party to yes, the Super Bowl (hey, Super Bowl appetizers are allowed to be elegant!) but in my case they also come in handy when I don't feel like a regular supper. You know those days when you just feel like lounging around with a glass of wine and some finger food? I'll be honest and say most of the time that finger food ends up being a bowl of popcorn, but with only a little bit more effort you can whip up a plate of these. Crispy, tender, asparagus wrapped in prosciutto and drizzled with just a teeny bit of balsamic vinegar, and ooh la la. Let's make some! Read More & Get the Recipe

It always seems to sneak up on me, this whole days getting shorter and colder thing, but as soon as it dawns on me that no, it is not okay to leave the house without socks, I start being extra grateful for warm and comforting recipes that cook up in the slow cooker. Take this slow cooker apple cider pot roast, for example. You drop it in the slow cooker in the morning, go battle the elements, come home that dinner having forgotten about the whole slow cooker thing, and as you walk in the door you slowly realize that yes, dinner is deliciously ready. And it is piping hot all kinds of good comfort food. It makes the no-more-socks thing not as hard to take. Read More & Get the Recipe

This is one of those recipes that I feel slightly guilty about actually calling a recipe, that's how dang easy it is. All it takes is four ingredients and about ten minutes to put it all together, and while it is wonderful alongside chicken or steak or whatever else you are cooking up on your grill, it is also just plain perfection all by itself. So with that, welcome to one of my all time summer favorites: tomato goat cheese salad. Read More & Get the Recipe

Is there anything better than potatoes? I like them mashed, I liked them made into fries, I like them sliced on top of a cottage pie. I like them here, I like them there, I like them like them everywhere. I especially like those adorable little baby ones...you know the ones I mean. The little tiny red and white ones, the ones that make it possible for you to eat multiple potatoes at the same meal and still feed kind of virtuous. Kind of. Hey, they are vegetables! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
So besides mashing them up with lots of butter and cream, which I completely concede is the absolute best way on earth to prepare a potato, I think I just stumbled upon the next best approach to potato heaven. It's completely easy, completely delicious, and only involves four things. Potatoes (natch). Olive oil. Coarse salt. And this...
Now, I admit that finding malt vinegar can be a bit of a challenge. I actually found mine in the international foods section of Read More & Get the Recipe

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